ébahir
\e.ba.iʁ\
The verdict
“ébahir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étonner fortement, surprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ebahir · ébahir · French
ébahir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ébahir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ba.iʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ébahir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ébahir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ba.iʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étonner fortement, surprendre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ébahir in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ébahir, spelled É-B-A-H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Étonner fortement, surprendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ébahir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je restai ébahi.
Il n’y a point là de quoi s’ébahir.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.